More alike than different : treating severely dissociative trauma survivors

More alike than different : treating severely dissociative trauma survivors /

Just as the prevalence of incest and child sexual abuse was a well-kept secret until recently, the phenomenon of multiple personality disorder (MPD) - recently re-labelled dissociative identity disorder [DID] - has been minimized. In her practice as a psychologist, Margo Rivera has found this to be...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rivera, Margo, 1945-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 1996.
Subjects:
Multiple personality > Treatment.
Multiple personality.
Dissociative Identity Disorder > therapy
Psychotherapy > methods
Dissociative Identity Disorder > etiology
Child Abuse, Sexual > psychology
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic > psychology
Dissociative Identity Disorder.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Illness.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
Multiple personality
Multiple personality > Treatment
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Multiple Personality in Context
  • 2. Multiplicity Is the Solution, Not the Problem
  • 3. Learning the Language of Dissociation
  • 4. Assessment: A Joint Endeavour
  • 5. Constructing the Healing Process
  • 6. Boundaries in Psychotherapy
  • 7. Abuse and Memory in the 1990s
  • 8. Ritual Abuse
  • 9. Treating the Lesbian and Gay Survivor of Abuse
  • 10. The Politics of Child Abuse and Dissociation
  • 11. Conclusion: Who Are You?

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